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Review of Origen

Origen

Fuel Fandango

Warner Music Spain

Rating: ★★

Origen marks a change in style for the Spanish duo Fuel Fandango. Nita (Cristina Manjón) is a singer from Córdoba...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2020

Review of We’re Usually A Lot Better Than This

We’re Usually A Lot Better Than This

Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott

Top of the World

Full Light Records

Rating: ★★★★

If they really are ‘usually a lot better than this’ then it's difficult to imagine what Tim O'Brien and Darrell...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013

Review of Cyrillus Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel

Cyrillus Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel

Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Estonia has a number of contemporary composers who have made an art out of sacred choral music and written for...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sept/2020

Review of In the Wake of Memories

In the Wake of Memories

Mukdad Rothenberg Lankow

Clermont Music

Rating: ★★★

A Syrian refugee, an international aid worker and a philosopher walk into a recording studio… When three musicians from very...

Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: December/2020

Review of Asimétrico

Asimétrico

El Remolón

Fértil Discos

Rating: ★★★

It’s a pity the name ‘trance’ has already been taken for a music genre, as it is the perfect descriptor...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: December/2021

Review of Family

Family

Qristina & Quinn Bachand

QQ Records

Rating: ★★★★

Family, the second offering from the ridiculously young and absurdly talented Canadian siblings Qristina and Quinn Bachand finally reaches the...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sept/2013

Review of The Morning Tempest

The Morning Tempest

Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente

Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente

Rating: ★★★

Having recently picked up Radio 2's Young Folk Award, Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente have released their debut album, and...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: May/2018

Review of Moonshee

Moonshee

Moonshee

Park Records

Rating: ★★

For their debut album, Moonshee have chosen mostly traditional ballads – favourites such as ‘Fair and Tender Ladies’, ‘Polly Vaughan’...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012

Review of Handmade

Handmade

Hindi Zahra

EMI 5099945725005

Rating: ★★★★

Supplying the music for a big-budget TV ad campaign might provoke eat-ealls from the anti-corporate quarter, but the cash does...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2010

Review of Playing For Change II: Songs Around The World

Playing For Change II: Songs Around The World

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Hear Music

Rating: ★★★

Reviewing well-mean¬ing musical projects designed to raise money for worthwhile charities can be a critic’s nightmare. More often than not...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2012

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